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Dr. Wilfried Komoyo is the Medical Director at Bouar Provincial Hospital in the west of the Central African Republic.
“I will never forget 31 January 2014,” says Dr. Komoyo. That’s the day when gunfire broke out in the hospital compound between two armed groups, trapping hospital...

This week marks three years since the crisis in Syria began. The UN estimates that 9 million people in Syria need aid, including 3.5 million people living in areas where aid groups cannot reach them.
At the most severe end of the scale are the 250,000 people living in besieged areas, without access to...

On International Women's Day (8 March), OCHA is highlighting some of the remarkable women working on the front lines of some of the world's toughest emergencies.
Federica D’Andreagiovanni was in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, when the country descended into chaos. Her experience of those...

The town of Bambari in the Central African Republic’s Ouaka Province, has been spared the spiral of violence that has left countless communities torn apart across the country. It serves as a reminder that the crisis in CAR cannot be easily defined as a ‘religious conflict’.
Bambari...

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners are seeking US$406 million to provide five million people with essential, life-saving aid in 2014.
At an event to launch the 2014 Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) held in Kabul in early February, Afghanistan’s Minister of Rural Rehabilitation...